The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides

The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides

"He remember exactly where he'd been standing, and how Madeleine had stooped forward, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear, as the sheet slipped and, for a few exhilarating moments, her pale, quiet, Episcopalian breast exposed itself to this sight."

Cain, by José Saramago

Cain, by José Saramago

"Crying over spilt milk is not as pointless as people say, it is in a way instructive because it shows the true scale of the frivolity of certain human behaviour, because if milk is spilled, it's spilled and all you can do is clean it up, and if abel died a cruel death that's because someone took his life."